The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.